10 May 11 - In Al Gore’s presentation of his "Inconvenient Truth"
documentary, he conveniently separated the Vostok Ice core
temperature and CO2 graphs so you could not see which came first, a
warming spike or a CO2 spike. He said that a CO2 spike came first
but alas, it was the just the opposite as shown in the Vostok Ice
Core graph below.

When both lines are combined on one graph, suitably enlarged and viewed in
the correct direction from left to right, it is clearly seen that a warming
spike always comes first (blue line) followed by a CO2 increase (red line)
some 800 years later.

There are many reasons for the oceans to warm and cool over long periods of
time and those influences are not the subject of this paper. Warming of the
oceans reduces the solubility of CO2 in water which results in the
liberation of CO2. An additional effect of the oceans warming up is that
more water vaporizes and for each pound of water evaporated 1,000 Btu of
cooling occurs. Increased water vapor and CO2 in the atmosphere then causes
a further cooling effect through the reflection of more radiation back to
outer space. Nature has this under control.

Gore also gave no explanation what would cause a CO2 spike to occur in the
first place. What is so disturbing here is that, just like Al Gore, many
climatologists and meteorologists seem to have a problem discerning cause
and effect. It is very simple, if what you call an effect comes first, you
have it backwards; a cause always comes first to produce the effect.

Robert Ashworth
is a chemical engineer and member of the American Geophysical
Union. He holds 16 US patents and some foreign patents on coal
conversion processes and environmental control technologies. In
2001 the Kentucky Governor Paul Patton commissioned him a
Kentucky Colonel for his work on clean coal technology.

Nasif Nahle
is a University Professor and Director of the Scientific
Research Division at Biology Cabinet, Mexico; a Biologist, 1st.
Level Certificate in Scientific ICAM Research by the University
of Harvard and certificated in Physics, Climatology,
Meteorology, Paleontology and Geology. He's a member of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the
American Physical Society.

Hans Schreuder
is a retired analytical chemist and now webmaster of
http://ilovemycarbondioxide.com/
where he has been promoting scientific scepticism about the
man-made aspect of climate change. He is also a co-author of the
world’s first book debunking the climate change hype based on
the imaginary “greenhouse effect” – Slaying the Sky Dragon:
Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory.